Public folders wont mount

[Jackmetickler]

Hi there

I have got myself into a pickle with my exhcange log files.

After moving a server and getting disk errors which we corrected we found we could not mount the Public Folders and received error c1041724.

We followed various possible solution re file permissions but non worked.

At the time the only backup was at year end and in the end that was better than nothing so we attempted to restore.

The restore went ok but we could still not mount store with same c1041724 error

eseutil ended in a dead end with either out of sync or non-contiguous files errors.

We found a more up-to-date (one month) backup and attempted that but still same problems.

I am now convinced that due to all the attempted fixes we have somehow messed up the log files and I am unable to find a solution to fixing them.

Therefore as we need to get the Public Folders available (even empty ones) again I am looking for the best way to achieve that.

I feel that it is going to be a full exchange re-install but I was wondering if there were a better way to create some new Public Folders.

Our exchange is run from a SBS 2000 server and there are no other exchange servers.

Any advice gratefully received
Jackmetickler

 

[lb63640]

How much free space do you have on the disk where Exchange resides? I've seen that error message when you're running low of spare room. See MS article

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294318

Also, a good TechNet article:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996027.aspx

 

[SimonDavis]

Just another possible thought - probably a bit late now, but make sure the mdbdata folder is completely empty before you restore, and you also need to go to the exchange manager, and (assuming they're listed) right click the mailstores, select properties / database and check 'allow this store to be overwritten by backup'.

That's from memory, so it might be slightly different on screen . . .

 

[Zelandakh]

Dismount the public store.
Delete the public store files (edb/stm).
Create a new public store and mount it.

Restore from backup.

Not clever, but it should get you working depending on your store layout.

 

[Jackmetickler]

Hello gents

Many thanks for replies -

Simon - if I empty the MDBDATA folder will that not delete required private store log files.
Both the private and the public are pointed to the same folder - do not know if that is standard practice or bad planning on our part.

-
zelandakh -

attempted to create new public store but keep getting

'all public folder trees are already associated with a public store on this server, you need to create a new public folder tree before you create a new public folder'

any ideas

All assistance gratefully received

Jack

 

[Jackmetickler]

Hello there

I have created a new public folders group but I cannot see it from Outlook on any workstation.

Any ideas.

Jack